Until recently, there was no protocol established relating to the management of patients with oral anticoagulant treatment before an act of oral surgery. Following the last studies completed on this subject, the French Society of Oral Medicine and Oral Surgery (SFMBCB) and the French Society of Cardiology (SFC) decided to write the new recommendations in 2006 relating to the management of these hypocoagulated patients. From now onwards, the oral anticoagulation treatment will not have to be changed before dental extractions, if INR is stable and less than 3. A local haemostasis will have to be accomplished with quality: filling of the socket, sutures in separated points, intermittent compressions and postsurgical control on the third day.The objective of the study of epidemiology is to give an account, of 2007, of the practices of the dental surgeons for the patients with oral anticoagulant treatment in Ille-et-Vilaine, France. And thus, it will assess different used protocols, techniques of haemostasis, with possible complications, and the sources of information of the practitioners of Ille-et-Vilaine. These data will be compared with recommendations of SFMBCB and SFC.

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